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  • The World After Ukraine

    A Return to Values and the Building of a New Moral Order

    Russian dissident, former world chess champion and human rights activist Garry Kasparov argues that the invasion of Ukraine marks a turning point in world history: a chance to finally restore the moral values that keep autocracy in check.When Garry Kasparov's 2015 book Winter is Coming predicted that Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine, its warnings were largely ignored. But seven years later, his ... Read more

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  • Putin's Sledgehammer

    The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos

    The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world’s deadliest militia.In July 2023, the Wagner Group assembled an armed convoy that included tanks and rocket launchers and set out on what seemed like a journey to take control of Moscow. The last person to attempt such a venture was Adolf Hitler.Wagner’s power began from patronage, then grew from international theft and extortion, until ... Read more

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  • Motherland

    A Feminist History of Modern Russia,from Revolution to Autocracy

    by Julia Ioffe ...
    Award-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America. The Soviet women she had known ... Read more

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  • El mundo chino

    Translated by Mª Dolors Folch Fornesa ...
    Series series Libros de Historia
    Esta historia general de China y de su civilización es el único libro existente en el mercado que, en sólo 700 páginas, nos ofrece una síntesis global de la evolución de China en todos los campos y en todas las épocas. El profesor Jacques Gernet dibuja en este libro, paso a paso, las transformaciones sucesivas del mundo chino y la interrelación entre sociedad, formas políticas, economía, técnicas, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Hamburger Hill 1969

    Operation Apache Snow in the A Shau Valley

    Series Book 409 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated, authoritative exploration of Operation Apache Snow, including the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill (Ap Bia Mountain), one of the most significant and well-known actions in the Vietnam War.Operation Apache Snow was the result of a renewed Free World effort in early 1969 to neutralize the North Vietnamese forces in the A Shau, a 45km-long valley located in the southwestern ... Read more

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  • The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage

    Volume 1

    A lucid and landmark translation that offers an intriguing glimpse into Tibetan history, the Mongol Empire, and the spiritual development and remarkable lives of the early luminaries of the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.In this first of two volumes of The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage, translators Khenpo Kunga Sherab and Matthew W. King capture a truly remarkable period in Buddhist and ... Read more

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  • Auf den Spuren der Indoeuropäer

    Von den neolithischen Steppennomaden bis zu den frühen Hochkulturen

    Series Book 6229 - Beck Paperback
    Seit mehr als 3000 Jahren werden von Indien über Persien bis nach Europa indoeuropäische Sprachen gesprochen. Wo liegen die Ursprünge dieser Sprachfamilie? Wie und wann sind die unterschiedlichen Sprachzweige entstanden?Der renommierte Indogermanist Harald Haarmann schildert anschaulich, was wir heute über die Entstehung der indoeuropäischen Sprachen und Kulturen und ihre frühen Verbreitungswege ... Read more

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  • Kleine Geschichte Koreas

    Series Book 1666 - Beck Paperback
    Die koreanische Halbinsel liegt zwischen China und Japan am Schnittpunkt unterschiedlicher Kulturen und im Visier wechselnder Großmächte. Das Buch beschreibt die Geschichte des Landes von der ersten Besiedlung bis zur gegenwärtigen Teilung. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei der koreanischen Kultur, insbesondere Religion, Philosophie, Literatur und Kunst. Washington, 10. August 1945: Unmittelbar nach ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Call of Duty

    The Life of Colonel Robert Howard, America's Most Decorated Green Beret

    Series series American War Heroes
    As a child, Robert Howard was taught by his Granny Callie to always face his threats head-on. Some thirty years later, he emerged from the Vietnam War as America’s most decorated Green Beret.For the first time, Robert Howard’s story is being told in full. Respected military historian Stephen L. Moore takes readers into the heart of the Vietnam War's covert Special Ops jungle warfare in this ... Read more

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  • Ground Forces in the Korean War 1950–53 (1)

    The North Korean People’s Army and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army

    Series Book 560 - Men-at-Arms
    Featuring full-color artwork, this book describes and illustrates the Chinese and North Korean troops who fought US and UN forces in Korea during 1950–53.In June 1950, North Korean forces armed and equipped by the Soviet Union invaded South Korea, forcing back the US and South Korean troops facing them and threatening them with complete defeat. After the US and UN forces mounted a series of ... Read more

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  • Son Tay 1970

    The Operation Ivory Coast POW rescue mission

    Series Book 60 - Raid
    A superbly illustrated account of one of the key milestones in the development of modern US Special Operations Forces, the hugely complex POW rescue at Son Tay.On November 21, 1970, a meticulously prepared force of US Special Forces in HH-53 helicopters, supported by more than a hundred combat aircraft, raided the POW camp at Son Tay, North Vietnam, just 23 miles west of Hanoi, seeking 61 American ... Read more

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  • Second Arakan 1943–44

    Shattering the Myth of Japanese Invincibility in Burma

    by Tim Moreman ...
    Series Book 407 - Campaign
    A detailed examination of one of the crucial campaigns of World War II in Burma, in which British and Commonwealth forces achieved their first decisive victory over Japanese arms.The hard-fought Second Arakan campaign was a second attempt by Allied arms to advance in the coastal Arakan region in western Burma, following a failed first effort in early 1943. The battles fought shattered the myth of ... Read more

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  • Intent to Destroy

    Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine

    by Eugene Finkel ...
    The full story of how and why Russia has tried to violently subjugate Ukraine across the centuries, and how Ukrainians have resistedRussia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet, to Ukrainians, this attack was painfully familiar, the latest episode in a centuries-long Russian campaign to divide and oppress Ukraine.In Intent to Destroy, political scientist Eugene ... Read more

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  • Hi Story, History: Part-1, World Is My Home

    Hi Story, History: Part-1, World Is My HomeWhen people lose their home due to situations beyond their control, what can they do? Then the better choice is to make the world their own home and explore the places where they can have dignity, peace, and equal opportunity in business and life, so that they can thrive again and contribute to make the world a "Better New World".The book series - "Hi ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Tokyo Before Tokyo

    Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo

    by Timon Screech ...
    A rich and original history of Edo, the shogun’s city that became modern Tokyo.Tokyo today is one of the world’s mega-cities and the center of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture—but not everyone is aware of its past. Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called Edo, was the locus of Japanese trade, economics, and urban civilization until 1868, when it mutated ... Read more

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  • Borneo 1945

    The Last Major Allied Campaign in the South-West Pacific

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 406 - Campaign
    A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II.A week after Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese troops landed near Brunei on the South-East Asian island of Borneo. Within eight weeks, the entire island had been overrun, and its Dutch and British Indian defenders had been ejected. By early April ... Read more

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  • Warships in the Komandorski Islands 1943

    The USN and IJN fight the last pure surface battle

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 333 - New Vanguard
    With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed.The Battle of the Komandorski Islands was unique among World War II naval battles. It was the last daytime naval surface battle of World War II where aircraft played no role, and saw a squadron of US Navy ... Read more

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  • The Forbidden Garden

    The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice

    by Simon Parkin ...
    From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who faced an impossible choice during the Siege of Leningrad: eat the collection to prevent starvation, or protect their life’s work to help end world hunger?In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad—now St. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Farthest Valley

    Escaping the Chinese Trap at Chosin Reservoir 1950

    A history of the legendary extraction of the Fifth and Seventh Marines from a Chinese trap, told for the first time using Chinese sources.Knee-deep in snow, and under a leaden sky, American Marines thousands of miles from home watched more snow settle onto the frozen ground, glittering in the fading light. Suddenly, the still Korean night roared to life with the sound of Chinese mortar fire. The ... Read more

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  • The Vietnam War

    A Military History

    The first comprehensive military history of the war in VietnamThe Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war.Based on thousands of pages ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Reimagining the More-Than-Human City

    Stories from Singapore

    by Jamie Wang ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    An exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities.As climate change accelerates and urbanization intensifies, our need for more sustainable and livable cities has never been more urgent. Yet, the imaginary of a flourishing urban ecofuture is often driven by a specific version of ... Read more

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  • Japanese Combined Fleet 1942–43

    Guadalcanal to the Solomons Campaign

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 8 - Fleet
    A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it did.Contrary to myth, the Imperial Japanese Navy was not a shattered force after its defeat at Midway. In this book, Pacific War expert Mark Stille examines the IJN's Combined Fleet during the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaigns, when it was ... Read more

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